On 27/04/2015 11:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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The Medway Handyman wrote:
Time has come to replace the tower PC with a laptop, so I'm after some
advice from the learned people here, since I'm a computer numpty.


Have you actually thought this through?

I have a decent laptop and a desktop. The laptop is (obviously) useful
where I need a portable device, but I far prefer the desktop for general
use.

Reasons? Bigger and better screen, full sized keyboard and proper mouse.
Of course you could add all those to a laptop - but then it is no longer
portable. Other thing is a desktop is easy to repair/extend etc, a laptop
usually not.

Yup, my reasons for much preferring a desktop (plus the fact I run a
pair of big screens, and also like playing games from time to time).

One option that works for some is a "small form factor" desktop. Setup
with wireless mouse and KB, they take up not much more space than a
laptop, but without some of the down sides. You can even get ones dinky
enough to mount on the back of a monitor.



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Cheers,

John.

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